October 24, 2022 – Trinity Health Michigan and University of Michigan Health have entered a unique collaboration to bring advanced pediatric specialty care to Trinity Health Oakland hospital (formerly St. Joseph Mercy Oakland) and the communities it serves.
The University of Michigan Board of Regents recently approved the joint operating agreement that will make pediatric specialty care from U-M Health C.S. Mott Children’s Hospital available to Oakland County families. Trinity Health Michigan’s Board of Directors has also approved the venture.
For the first time, leading pediatric specialists from Michigan’s top ranked children’s hospital will provide services in the tri-county area both in outpatient clinics and through inpatient consultation and procedures at Trinity Health Oakland.
The agreement builds on the two health systems’ existing affiliation agreement and follows a joint venture at Chelsea Hospital in 2018 and U-M Health joint operating agreements expanding cancer and cardiovascular services on the west side of the state.
Through a physician services agreement earlier this year, Mott cardiologists have been offering pediatric heart care at Trinity Health Oakland since January 2022. By way of the new collaboration, Mott pediatric urology and orthopedic clinics are opening in November 2022, and a pediatric surgery clinic in January 2023.
Additional pediatric specialties will also be added to the offerings over the next year.
U-M Health serves patients from across the state through a network of relationships with health systems, hospitals and physicians. A strategic priority in expanding this statewide network is a greater presence in communities across the state, including communities adjacent to Ann Arbor and beyond.
U-M Health and Trinity Health Michigan have a history of successful collaborations based on the complementary attributes and resources of U-M Health as an academic health system and Trinity Health Michigan as a health care system with unique capabilities operating community hospitals.
Trinity Health Michigan and Michigan Medicine have had a variety of clinical programs and educational partnerships in place for decades. A master affiliation agreement between the organizations was executed in 2012 to enable the health systems to work together to create health care solutions in communities each mutually serves across the state.